A focus on French short films that were selected during March at international festivals supported by Unifrance.
🏆 Awards for French short films 🏆
➡️Two short films awarded at Tampere Film Festival in Finland
- The International Competition Best Fiction Award went to A South Facing Window by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir.
- The Generation XYZ Best Genre Film Award went to God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles.
➡️ In Vienna, the Tricky Women/Tricky Realities festival honored five French works
- Water Girl by Sandra Desmazières received the Maria Lassnig Golden Film Reel, the International Competition's top prize.
- Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade garnered Jury Special Mention / International Competition.
- Winter in March by Natalia Mirzoyan won the Tricky Women Tricky Realities Award
- Balconada by Iva Tokmakchieva received the Up and Coming Tricky Women Tricky Realities Award.
- The Jury Special Mention of the Up and Coming Competition went to Pebble to Pebble by Charlotte Annereau.
➡️ Two French films lauded at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF).
- Because Today Is Saturday by Alice Eça Guimarães received the Grand Prize.
- The Toshima City Award went to the student film Dear End, by Khéma Cousin, Lien Franckel, Laora Le Boursicot, Alissende Masson, Joséphine Mounier, and Clément Saden.
➡️ Two awards at the Kaboom Animation Festival in the Netherlands
- Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault received the Kaboom Prize for Best Documentary
- Merrimundi by Niles Atallah received the Best Experimental Award
➡️ REGARD, the international short film festival in Quebec, crowned five French short films
- Souls of Fouta by Alpha Diallo received the Jury Prize.
- Sixty-Seven Milliseconds by fleuryfontaine received a Special Mention for Best Documentary Short Film and the Quebec Critic Award AQCC.
- Best Youth Short Film Award went to The Legend of the Hummingbird by Morgan Devos, while Carcassonne-Acapulco by Marjorie Caup and Olivier Héraud received a Special Mention in the same category.
- Diego by Mélissa Silveira won the Public Award.
➡️ A trio of French works reaped awards at the Kino Athens International Film Festival
- The Silver Deer of the City of Athens (National Competition) was awarded to Pirateland by Stavros Petropoulos.
- I'm Glad You're Dead Now by Tawfeek Barhom received a National Competition Special Mention.
- In the International Competition, the short film Ashen Sun by Camille Monnier garnered a Special Mention.
➡️ At the Brazilian festival Curta Cinema, a French co-production won a major award.
- Fishes don't drown by Léa Vidotto received the International Competition Grand Prize.
✈️ The following people received travel funding ✈️
Olivier Héraud, who presented his animated short film Carcassonne-Acapulco at REGARD in Saguenay, Canada, had nothing but praise for the event: "The overall organization of the festival was truly exemplary. The on-site team was particularly warm and attentive. (…) The presence of industry professionals (producers, buyers, etc.) was valuable; I even forged some strong bonds and connections with other filmmakers and programmers from festivals around the world. (…) Screening the film in this setting provided it with great visibility among a curious and engaged audience, as well as industry professionals. Furthermore, the meetings on-site, whether formal or more informal, were enriching and stimulating, both on a personal and professional level. I also had the pleasure of receiving a jury award, which made the experience there particularly rewarding."
Laurie Bisceglia accompanied her short film Chambre 206 to the Tampere Film Festival.
Alexandre Athané traveled to Japan to present his film Jus d'orange at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival.
A delegation of emerging producers participated in Kaboom. The animation festival included an industry component in Utrecht and a festival component in Amsterdam. The delegation consisted of:
- Avantika Singh Desbouvries from Salt for Sugar Films
- Shanti Bourse from Autour de Minuit
- Barbara Vougnon from Tchack
- Valentin Maupin from Avec ou sans Vous
🔹 All the selections 🔹
March featured a wide selection of French short films in eight partner festivals.
🇫🇮 In Finland, the Tampere Film Festival presented 21 French shorts.
International Competition
- Balloonerism by Samuel Jérôme Masson
- Charlie Is not a Boy by Pol Kurucz
- A Fronteira azul by Dinis M. Costa
- Avant de rentrer... by Arthur Bonneau
- Chambre 206 by Laurie Bisceglia
- Green Grey Black Brown by Yuyan Wang
- L'mina by Randa Maroufi
- Voice of the Arena by Ahmed Dendane and Alexandre Tarek Bougja
- Papya by Constance Delorme and Erwan Dean
- Sixty-Seven Milliseconds by fleuryfontaine, Galdric Fleury, and Antoine Fontaine
- Solenopsis invicta by Victor Missud
- A South Facing Window by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
- Winter in March by Natalia Mirzoyan
Generation XYZ
Minikino
Sidebar programs
- Percebes by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves
- Two People Exchanging Saliva by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata
- I Saw the Face of the Devil by Julia Kowalski
- L'Avance by Djiby Kebe
🇦🇹 In Austria, Tricky Women/Tricky Realities focused on 17 French short films made by women.
International Competition
- To the Woods by Agnès Patron
- Ordinary Life by Yoriko Mizushiri
- Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade
- Death of the Fish by Éva Lusbaronian
- Water Girl by Sandra Desmazières
- Winter in March by Natalia Mirzoyan
Up & Coming Competition
- Balconada by Iva Tokmakchieva
- Mise en culture, récolte et dispersion des épines by Jeanne Girard
- Pebble to Pebble by Charlotte Annereau
Special Programs
- Kosmogonia by Karolina Chabier
- Sulaimani by Vinnie Ann Bose
- Because Today Is Saturday by Alice Eça Guimarães
- Someone Special by Alice Gervat
- Long Distance by Iulia Voitova
- As if the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up by Natalia León
Retrospectives
🇬🇷 In Greece, Kino Athens screened 21 French shorts in three sections.
International Competition
- Images de Tunisie by Younès Ben Slimane
- The Missing Piece by Alma Jodorowsky
- The Inhabitants by Maureen Fazendeiro
- Green Eyes by Sacha Teboul
- No Skate! by Guil Sela
- S the Wolf by Sameh Alaa
- Samba infinie by Leonardo Martinelli
- Ashen Sun by Camille Monnier
- A Sky So Low by Joachim Michaux
- Vultures by Dian Weys
- Yonne by Julietta Korbel and Yan Ciszewski
National Competition
- Elliniko by Joséphine Faisant
- I'm Glad You're Dead Now by Tawfeek Barhom
- Pirateland by Stavros Petropoulos
Kino Junior
- Mont Noir by Erika Haglund and Jean-Baptiste Peltier
- Silhouette by Alexis Lafuente, Marc Forest, Chloé Stricher, Elliot Dreuille, Antoni Nicolaï, and Baptiste Gueusquin
- Next? by Christel Guibert
- Black Tide by Kim Yip Tong
- Sparrows by Rémi Durin
- Baking With Boris by Maša Avramović
- Lola and the Sound Piano by Augusto Zanovello
🇳🇱 In the Netherlands, Kaboom Animation Festival once again put French animated films in the spotlight with a selection of 34 French short films.
International Competition
- S the Wolf by Sameh Alaa
- 2:14 PM by Luciano Lepinay
- To the Woods by Agnès Patron
- Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade
- Death of the Fish by Éva Lusbaronian
- Max by Émilien Pichon
- Jeanne & Jean Jean by Thanys Martin
- Autokar by Sylwia Szkiłądź
- El Cuerpo del Cristo by Bea Lema
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
Kaboom Kids Competition
- Once Upon a Time in Dragonville by Marika Herz
- J'ai trouvé une boîte by Éric Montchaud
- A Snow Bath in Norway by Pascale Hecquet
- Sketches on Ice by Marion Auvin
- Cloud Fish by Noé Garcia
Short Docs
- L'Horizon du bout du nez by Etienne Bonnet
- Sixty-Seven Milliseconds by fleuryfontaine, Galdric Fleury, and Antoine Fontaine
- Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault
Poetry in Motion
- Merrimundi by Niles Atallah
- Mise en culture, récolte et dispersion des épines by Jeanne Girard
Commissioned Shorts
- Shades of Blue by Katya Mikheeva
- The Phoenix by Marlène Ciampossin and Mary Yanko
- Lullaby by Louis Fourel
- Lark in a Sky Shop by Marie Lavis
Queer
- The Left-Handed Snail by Valentin Decombe, Matteo Boulard, Mathys Mysius, Louis Velaine, Gabryel Aury, and Clément Nahmias
- My Name is Lilith by Leo Luna Robert-Tourneur
Thematic Section: Human Touch
Retrospective Monique Renault
- El Condor Pasa by Monique Renault
- La donna è mobile by Monique Renault
- The Alliance by Monique Renault
- Psychoderche by Monique Renault
- À la vôtre... by Monique Renault
🇯🇵 In Japan, the Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF) presented seven French animated shorts.
International Competition
- Kamarade by Garance Valere, Valentin Okoundou, Hubert Chauvaux, Alice Bourget, Louise Laurent, and Fleuriane Le Guillou
- Carmela by Vicente Mallols
- Dear End, by Khéma Cousin, Lien Franckel, Laora Le Boursicot, Alissende Masson, Joséphine Mounier, and Clément Saden
- Jus d'orange by Alexandre Athané
- La Fille du lac by Louise Bacou, Olessia Fedko, Mathieu Leguay, Ludivine Miermont, Élisa Martin, Marion Fuchs, Achille Houplain, and Luna Schwertz
- Because Today Is Saturday by Alice Eça Guimarães
- Winter in March by Natalia Mirzoyan
🇨🇦 In Canada, the REGARD festival featured a strong French contingent of 28 short films across its various sections.
Official Competition
- If You Don't Like It, Look Away by Margaux Fournier
- Coyotes by Said Zagha
- Wild Sound by Théo Vincent Suzzoni
- Birthmark by George Peter Barbari
- Diego by Mélissa Silveira
- Water Girl by Sandra Desmazières
- Souls of Fouta by Alpha Diallo
Best Youth Short Film Competition
- Carcassonne-Acapulco by Marjorie Caup and Olivier Héraud
- The Eagle and the Kinglet by Paul Jadoul
- Duet by Léo Brunel
- Piccolo Piccolo by Marta Gennari
- Baião d'intérieurs by Héloïse Dorsan Rachet
- Once Upon a Time in Dragonville by Marika Herz
- The Legend of the Hummingbird by Morgan Devos
- Le Petit et le Géant by Isabela Costa
Thematic Programs
- Patience (Sabali) by Valentin Guiod
- Barking in the Dark by Marie Losier
- Fairplay by Zoel Aeschbacher
- Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault
Competition - Animation
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
- Sixty-Seven Milliseconds by fleuryfontaine (Galdric Fleury, Antoine Fontaine)
High School Program and Family Shorties
- The Legend of the Hummingbird by Morgan Devos
- Baião d'intérieurs by Héloïse Dorsan Rachet
- Piccolo Piccolo by Marta Gennari
- The Eagle and the Kinglet by Paul Jadoul
- Carcassonne-Acapulco by Marjorie Caup and Olivier Héraud
- Duet by Léo Brunel
- Pale Sun by Adrian Moyse Dullin and Jawahine Zentar
🇧🇷 In Brazil, Curta Cinema selected five French shorts, screened in two sections.
International Competition
- Daria's Night Flowers by Maryam Tafakory
- Faux bijoux by Jessy Moussallem
- Kosmogonia by Karolina Chabier
- No God no Father by Paul Kermarec
School session
🇵🇹 In Portugal, Fantasporto, dedicated to fantasy films, presented three French shorts.
International Competition
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